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[
"adverse",
"adverse"
],
[
"hostile",
"hostile"
]
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"la:Religion"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "good omen",
"text": "1st BC, Virgilius\nsinistra cornix",
"translation": "good omen",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "started with bad omen",
"text": "2nd century, Apuleius\nsinistro pede profectus",
"translation": "started with bad omen",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"links": [
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"auspicious",
"auspicious"
],
[
"inauspicious",
"inauspicious"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(religion) auspicious (for Romans) or inauspicious (for Greeks)"
],
"tags": [
"adjective",
"declension-1",
"declension-2"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[sɪˈnɪs.tɛr]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[siˈnis.ter]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "sinister"
}
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